On Tuesday, after breakfast, I called Alan. He came and got me and took me down to Safeway. On the way, he got a call asking him to help someone else. Still, he waited for me at Safeway while I picked up two medicines. He took me home again afterwards, before getting the folks who called. We had a great talk over and back when he wasn't on the phone. He pointed out one thing I never thought of: when you drive for a living, sightseeing where you do your own driving doesn't feel much like a vacation. {Chuckle}
I ate dinner with Mom and read to her before that. She was awake again when I went in. She was sitting up and looking around. She even responded a few times and looked at all the pictures. First, I started my reading with scripture and thoughts about it. Then I read the next part of her niece's long family Christmas letter from 2023. After that, I started reading _Picture Book of Happy Babies_. She was looking at all the babies with interest. Next, I seven poems and three stories from _365 Animal Stories and Rhymes_. The last story, "Billy Fox is Bored," was longer, but she was alert enough, I felt I could do one more. I finished with the 25th of June's story, "Sleepy Starlight," from _366 Stories for Bedtime_. {Smile}I did my arm resistance exercises, arm swinging exercises, and head exercises while wait for Alan to come get me. I finished just a little before he arrived, which worked out perfectly. Then I did my standing arm weight training exercises between reading to Mom and dinner. Then I did my sitting arm weight training exercises while I was winding down for the night. {Smile}
Between breakfast and the trip to Safeway, I did play a little Cross Stitch World and read an article or two. I played more Cross Stitch World and read comics over lunch. Afterwards, I finished writing Monday's daily update. I played more Cross Stitch World and read some web fiction after lunch, too. One series I like will suddenly have part cease to be free soon. Unfortunately, it's the part that I'm not quite done reading. I'm not sure I can read up to the still-free part in time. We shall see. {rueful smile}
Anyway, then I hopped into City of Heroes: Homecoming. I found Pierogies, and we teamed up. We did one mission and started another. then Mysty invited me to "role-play player-vs-player " with some mutual friends we've known for years. I continued with Pierogies until he decided he was too tired and left. Then I joined Mysty and friends. I enjoyed seeing everyone, but unfortunately, the scenario they were playing turned out to be disturbing, largely because it was a particular type of horror that gets to me pretty consistently. It didn't help that one player I didn't know was talking about being fine with his character being killed off permanently in this. I was relieved when it got so close to time to read to Mom, I could bow out for that. I don't miss that if I can avoid doing so anyway. {smile}
After dinner, I saw most of the same friends on. I said hi to Mysty, who invited me to the team. I hoped they'd toned down the horror after my and some others' reactions to it, since I wasn't the only one to have their character react negatively to the initial report. They hadn't toned it down much. I still felt committed, so I stayed until they were winding down and planning another session. Then I let them know my discomfort, and some apologized. I was one of the earlier ones to leave. Afterwards, I started talking to Nox. I remembered they read horror, and hoped they had suggestions to put disturbing stuff behind them. However, they read horror because it doesn't upset them. Talking with them still helped. I also looked at my friends list in the game. The person I was most comfortable with who wasn't part of the group I'd just left was Azurette, so I joined her, and we ran some missions. I think I had trouble at first, but we talked, and I talked with Nox, and things got better over the evening, though I still didn't feel as happy as usual. Nox left, came back, then left the for evening. Azurette and I ran missions until she wanted to show me a base on a different part of Homecoming. We toured the base, and she told me stories of her life. Eventually, I said I had to leave, and she wanted one more story. Then I cleaned up and did my exercise. Next, I read comics and web fiction. Then I wrote a little of this and made notes to write from next day. {Smile}
